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• This episode was dedicated to Mary Kay Bergman and aired the week that she died.
• This is the only episode written by Kyle McCulloch.
• Starvin' Marvin has several family members, they are: David, his father, Joshua, his brother, and his younger brother, Click Click Derk.
• When the CIA come for the four boys, Cartman claims Kyle "went number two in the urinal", and Kyle responds that Cartman was the one who did so. Going "number two" in a urinal is later a major part of the plot for the Season Ten episode, "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce".
• The language the Ethiopians speak is closer to the tribal people of Southern Africa.
• This is the last episode in which Tolkien Black and Bill Allen are seen in the 3rd grade classroom. Only Tolkien would return to the 4th grade classroom from "Fourth Grade".
• At the beginning of the episode Mr. Garrison calls the Hare Krishna's "totally gay". This sect of Hinduism was founded in 1966 by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in New York City.
• The planet Marklar is depicted as a green-tinted, upside down version of The Blue Marble, which is the most reproduced image in the world.
• The unreleased DVDA song "I Am Chewbacca" plays during the end credits.
  • The lyric "Don't fucking cross me" is censored, even in the remastered HD version.
• A picture of Mars is used in the episode.
• Fourth wall break: One of the agents mention watching a cartoon making fun of Sally Struthers. This could be a reference to the episode "Starvin' Marvin".

References to Popular Culture

• List of Star Wars references:
  • Sally Struthers appears as Jabba the Hutt.
  • Kenny is frozen in carbonite like Han Solo.
  • Sally Struthers has a Tiberian Junker space ship like the Hutts.
  • The CBC spaceship is modeled after the Rebel fleets X-Wing fighters.
  • CIA agent Sphinx waves his hand in an attempt to use the Jedi Mind trick on Sally Struthers.
  • The intro after the main credits fade in like in the Star Wars movies.
• List of Star Trek: The Original Series references:
  • The CBC spaceship's bridge is loosely designed like the bridge of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701.
  • The Wormhole and the warping effect are similar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
• The Christian Broadcasting Channel (CBC) and the 600 Club are parodies of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and the 700 Club.
• Pat Robertson is a televangelist that is always using pledge drives to receive donations from their viewers.
• CBC are also the call letters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• Tom Brokaw was a very well known and liked TV newsman who worked for NBC from (1966-2004).
• The Marklar language uses "Marklar" as a verb like the cartoon Smurfs of the 1980s.
• The scene where Starvin' Marvin is flying over Australia, with the music in the background, is reminiscent of the 1980s film Flight of the Navigator.

Continuity

• This is the second episode with Starvin' Marvin, the first being the eponymous episode in Season One. This is also the first one to feature him as the main character.

Kenny's Death

• He is frozen in carbonite by the CIA as a gift for Sally Struthers. He may or may not be dead inside the carbonite, considering the fact that Han Solo survived being frozen in carbonite in the Star Wars series. Either way, he is fine and back on earth in the next episode.

Goofs

• The first time Marvin and the boys are in the wormhole (that teleports them to Marklar), there is a shot of all five of them in the cockpit yelling from the intense speed the ship is traveling (with a strange "ripple" visual effect covering the screen, to indicate they are in the wormhole). The second time the ship goes through the wormhole, Kenny was left back on Earth and is not on the ship. Yet, exactly the same clip from before is shown with all five of them in the cockpit, including Kenny.
• The red button that played the theme music for the rocket ship was also the same one that transported them into the wormhole.
• The spaceship's windshield is light blue. But in one brief shot, it turned red.
• When the boys are talking to Sally Struthers through the video screen, her crew appear to be Marklar from behind and then humans in green uniforms from the front.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Hladovej Marvin ve vesmíru	Starvin' Marvin in space
Finnish	Nälkä-Marvin avaruudessa	Starvin' Marvin in space
French	Éthernopiens dans l'espace	Ethnopians in space
German	Hungriger Hugos Mission im All	Hungry Hugos' mission in space
Hungarian	Kákabélű az űrben	A poop in space
Italian	Donato l'allupato nello spazio	Donato the Hungry/Horny in Space
Japanese	宇宙戦士!腹ぺこマーヴィン (Uchū senshi! Harapeko māvu~in)	Space warrior! Starvin' Marvin
Polish	Głodny Marvin w kosmosie	Starvin' Marvin in space
Russian	Кошмарный Марвин в космосе (Koshmarnyy Marvin v kosmose)	Nightmarish Marvin in space
Spanish (Latin America)	Paco, el Flaco en el espacio	Paco, the Skinny in space
Ukrainian	Марвін Голодарвін в Космосі (Marvin Holodarvin v Kosmosi)	Starvin' Marvin in space

Mandarin Chinese

• Cartman specifies that he had watched the 1994 Hong Kong erotic comedy film A Chinese Torture Chamber Story when explaining the potential tortures by the agents. He names dousing in hot water, plucking of fingernails, and sitting in an ice block with dripping wax oil.
• While speaking to Starvin' Marvin, the mayor in Australia brings up the 2000 Summer Olympics, which was held in Sydney.
• Cartman asks not to travel to the Orchid Island instead of Utah.